Password problems? There’s a Pill for That…

Hello folks! Let’s chat…Do you have trouble remembering computer passwords? I do. Well, fret not, Sweet Thing, it won’t be long before we can take a pill for that. Cel-e-brate good times, come on!  Sorry, but this is sweet to us forgetful folk.

Tech companies have developed a pill you can take with your daily vitamin that is battery powered by the acid in your stomach. I don’t speak geek but as best I can understand, your insides will switch the pill’s itty bitty micro chip on and start sending out a signal that can be read by your phone, your laptop, your car– any mechanical device that requires you to log in.

No, I’m not kidding. It’s already been tested and it successfully accessed a smart phone. It’s all good, too. I read where the FDA has approved these micro-chip laden pills! I mean, thank goodness we can trust our government not to encrypt them with any kind of spyware that would track us and save our information. What’s that? Oh… yeah…

I see your point and I’m suddenly feeling a tad queasy. Forget encryption. Will the people selling this technology be able to access it in real time? If so, it would mean that had I swallowed my microchip pill this morning, someone could be using my password to purchase me some Pepto with my credit card. What’s more, they could dispatch it to me via a drone before I even start burping, or we get through chatting, whichever comes first. I’m getting less okay with this by the minute.

And please, don’t tell me the microchip will be unhackable.  There’s no such animal.  My brain is conjuring up all sorts of scenarios and they’re all scary. Someone cue the twilight music.

For instance, I don’t know why I have to be the one to think of these things, but instead of stealing your grandma’s bank account number, thieves might just steal your grandma. Anyone think of that? Bless her heart, they’re liable to hold her until she, well, passes the information.

Can anyone hear me now…

Hugs, Shellie